by Gary Pritts | Apr 4, 2014 | HIPAA
By eagleconsultingpartners | Published: April 4, 2014 Skagit County, located in Northwest Washington, has agreed to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules. The County was fined $215,000 and must work closely with the...
by Gary Pritts | Apr 2, 2014 | HIPAA
By eagleconsultingpartners | Published: April 2, 2014 Undisclosed breaches are common in large healthcare enterprises according to recent survey According to a recent security survey by ThreatTrack, nearly 6 in 10 enterprise malware analysts from healthcare...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 25, 2014 | HIPAA
In just under 3 weeks, Microsoft will end the Windows XP era ending support for both Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 on April 8, 2014. Most Microsoft products have a life cycle of about a decade, but these two products have been around longer. What prompted the...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2014 | HIPAA
At HIMSS 2014, James Robnet, IRS Special Agent in charge of the IRS Tampa, FL field office, presented an update regarding IRS tax fraud and how fraudsters present data breach risks to hospitals, physicians and other health providers. When conducting a meaningful use...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 11, 2014 | HIPAA
HIPAA Compliance among items to be scrutinized in upcoming HRSA Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Audits At the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) Annual Conference today, Jacki Leifer of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell presented about...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 10, 2014 | HIPAA
Evaluating the Potential Impact of a HIPAA Security Breach in Your Risk Analysis HIMSS 2014 included multiple presentations and updates regarding breach risk. Attorney Tatiana Melnik of Melnik Legal presented an update on civil actions which provides important...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 7, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Several officials from CMS spoke at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando regarding meaningful use audits. Approximately 5% of both physician and hospital providers are being audited, and these audits are split about 50/50 between post-payment and pre-payment audits. “Document,...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 6, 2014 | HIPAA
“Top 20 Critical Security Controls” began in 2008 as an effort by U.S. and international agencies, including our own NSA, which has been the subject of so much media attention recently. Eventually, recommendations for what became the “Critical Security Controls”...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 4, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Eagle Consulting, Inc. has worked with healthcare providers who have failed meaningful use audits in the last two years. In each of these cases, the providers contacted us after the auditors found that they had not completed a legitimate risk analysis as required by...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 3, 2014 | Health Information Technology
Covered entities have been complying with the HIPAA Security Rule since 2005, with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the main enforcer starting in 2009. Industry watchers know that compliance across the provider community was limited, so, when CMS designed...
